Are you ready to get paid for your time?

Permission.io, a decentralized, blockchain-backed marketplace that pays you in Permission Tokens (ASK) for your time and data.

It’s time to Ask Permission and stop interrupting.

It’s time to be Transparent about how personal data is collected and used.

Its time for individuals to be paid versus internet giants.

Its time to build Trust.

Here's how it works

Marketers populate content on Permission.io, defining their audience and budget targets.

With permission from a qualified audience, Permission.io presents the marketer’s content across its distributed network.

Audience members that engage with marketer's content earn Permission Tokens.

Marketers receive anonymized analytics that account for meaningful audience engagements.

Whitepapers

The Permission Marketplace

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Executive Summary: The Permission Marketplace

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Advisory Board

Rob Gregory

President at WHOSAY

Rob Gregory

President at WHOSAY

Rob Gregory has served as President at WHOSAY since 2013, building the influential social media platform’s robust market positioning, editorial, and sales, before it was successfully sold to Viacom in early 2018.

Mr. Gregory has more than 25 years’ experience in team building, revenue growth, brand strategy, and media business P&L responsibility. His versatile career background includes serving as President of The Newsweek Daily Beast and Plum TV, and as Group Publisher at Dennis Publishing, Rolling Stone, and Men’s Journal. His teams published the largest issues in the history of those titles.

He has received numerous professional honors, is a frequent speaker at industry events, and has appeared live on MSNBC, Fox Business News, and other national outlets. These days he enjoys mentoring young founders in the tech and media industries, when he’s not spending time with his wife and daughter in Old Greenwich, Connecticut.

Richard Li

General Partner at Alphablock.com

Richard Li

General Partner at Alphablock.com

Richard Li is a General Partner at Alphablock.com. He was introduced to blockchain the day after bitcoin mining went live, and has been heavily investing in this space since 2012. He has been an Advisor for several successful Cryptocurrency offerings. Richard is one of the original seed investors in Permission.io.

Andrew Essex

Former CEO of Droga5

Andrew Essex

Former CEO of Droga5

Andrew Essex is the former Chief Executive officer of Tribeca Enterprises, a multi-platform storytelling company based in New York City, and the parent company of the Tribeca Film Festival. Until 2015, Andrew Essex is the former CEO of Droga5, arguably the most celebrated creative agency on the planet, which was acquired by the William Morris Endeavor talent agency in 2013. In addition to winning multiple “Agency of the Year” awards, Droga5 has been featured in New York magazine, the New York Times, and the New York Observer.

Prior to his role overseeing what The Guardian called “the most exciting agency on the planet,” he was an award-winning journalist and founding editor-in-chief of Absolute magazine, the acclaimed luxury lifestyle publication, which was named “one of the 50 Best Magazines in America” by the Chicago Tribune. Before running Absolute, Essex was the executive editor of Details magazine from 2000-2004, which under his leadership won numerous awards, and repeat appearances on Ad Age’s “Hot List.”

Andrew has also held editorial posts, among other publications, at Entertainment Weekly, Salon.com, and The New Yorker. He has served as a television commentator for several networks and his writing—from cover profiles of the most interesting public figures of our time to long-form features to critical reviews—have appeared in major publications. He is author of “The End of Advertising: Why It Had to Die and the Creative Resurrection to Come” and the co-author of: “A Very Public Offering: The Story of the Globe.com,” “Chasing Cool, and “Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco and Destiny”. Essex has an MA in American Literature from New York University. He lives with his wife and two children in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

Eric Ervin

CEO of Blockforce Capital

Eric Ervin

CEO of Blockforce Capital

Eric is the Co-founder and CEO of Blockforce Capital, previously known as Reality Shares, an award-winning ETF issuer and index provider. Recently named by Frank Chaparro “as a top crypto pioneer in Business Insider’s bitcoin Wall Street power list” (April 2018), Eric has guided the firm from being exclusively focused on dividend growth strategies to being a trailblazer and innovator in the blockchain technology investment space. Under Eric’s leadership, Reality Shares launched the world’s first passive ETF focused on the global blockchain technology ecosystem (Ticker: BLCN), and the company will be the first to launch a China-focused blockchain ETF. Eric is a frequent blockchain commentator on CNBC, FOX Business, CNN, and The Street, and he is regularly featured as a blockchain thought leader in Barron’s, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and U.S. News & World Report (among other media outlets and publications). Most recently, Eric is guiding the firm to launch a cryptocurrency robo-advisor tool in the second half of 2018, providing an easy-to-use platform for anyone to invest in cryptocurrencies and to manage their cryptocurrency portfolio.

Eric has over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, including 14 years as a Certified Financial Planner practitioner and a Chartered Financial Consultant. Prior to founding Reality Shares, Eric worked at Morgan Stanley, where he built the highly-recognized Ervin Miller Group wealth management franchise. He also worked at Citigroup, Smith Barney, and Morgan Stanley.

Ichiro Minamikawa

CEO at Cointed Japan, Founder at Blockchain Tokyo

Ichiro Minamikawa

CEO at Cointed Japan, Founder at Blockchain Tokyo

Ichiro Minamikawa is a serial entrepreneur based in Tokyo, founded 10 companies in 30 years, mostly by cross-border M&A. Currently CEO at Cointed Japan, multi-service blockchain company, and director of several FinTech and HealthTech companies. Also a Japan market entry consultant, helped many companies, such as Walmart and Sodexo. Ichiro is involved in several public organizations. He is the founder at Blockchain Tokyo, the founder and chairman at Japan Market Entry Association, and active member of Japan Payment Service Association.

Team

Charles H. Silver

CEO

Charles H. Silver

CEO

Charles Silver is CEO of Permission.io and leads the effort to develop the Permission.io Platform. Charles is a career entrepreneur with 30 years of experience of raising capital and building successful enterprises that focus on finance, technology, and media. He was an early visionary in the dot com era as founder and CEO of RealAge.com which was amongst the first companies to use Big Data to connect individuals to relevant advertisers. The company raised capital in the dot com boom, survived the crash by building a profitable business, and was sold very successfully to the Hearst Corporation. He is also a co-founder and board member of Reality Shares, an innovator in the securities industry with 5 publicly traded ETFs. As an early investor in Permission.io, he recognized the significance of Data Algebra to the entire software field and has financed the applied math R&D for 7 years. With the growth of the blockchain industry he is leading the effort to allow individuals to take ownership and monetize their data.

Andy Shah

CTO

Andy Shah

CTO

Andy Shah brings more than 18 years of technology leadership and executive management experience to Permission.io. He has grown both emerging and Fortune 500 technology companies. Prior to Permission.io, he was the Chief Technology Officer of an Austin based startup company where he was responsible for building cloud based advertisement platform that connects target end users and advertisers. Andy also served as a AVP of Software & Technology for Westell Inc (NYSE:WSTL) where he innovated and built the patented HomeCloud technology based product and platform, that securely protects, shares and synchronizes end users personal data with permission-based sharing to various online services. The HomeCloud platform also supported building and distributing 3rd party developer’s application using HomeCloud SDK and API. Andy also served as a Director of Engineering & Project Management for Sears Holding Corp (NYSE:SHLD). He additionally held the Sr. Software Engineering Manager position in VC based startup company Cleversafe Inc (Acquired by IBM for $1.3 Billion dollars). Prior to Cleversafe, he also occupied various technical roles as a Solution Architect, Software Architect and Software Engineer at Motorola Inc. Andy has a dual M.S. degree in Computer Science and Chemical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology. He has also published several white papers and held several US Patents.

Matt Erhart

VP of Finance & Compliance

Matt Erhart

VP of Finance & Compliance

Matt brings more than 9 years of regulatory compliance and financial experience to Permission. He holds the FINRA Series 7,66 and 24 licenses and is a candidate for CFA Level II. Prior to joining Permission, he was the Chief Compliance Officer of Reality Shares Advisors, where he helped launched the first blockhain ETF in partnership with Nasdaq and was heavily involved with the pending launch of a cryptocurrency hedge fund and retail investment platform.

Previously Matt was a FINRA Compliance Examiner for 4 years in both the Kansas City and Los Angeles district offices where he worked on several high profile matters in regulating broker/dealers in the securities industry. After leaving FINRA, Matt held stints in various regulatory compliance and audit positions. In his free time, Matt enjoys exercising, traveling and going on adventures with his dog Sampson.

Robin Bloor, PhD

Chief Strategy Officer

Robin Bloor, PhD

Chief Strategy Officer

Prior to joining Permission.io, Robin Bloor was a leading advocate for data algebra. He is now Chief Strategy Officer and part of the team that is working on Permission.io blockchain project. He has more than 30 years of experience in the world of big data and information management, and is an influential and respected researcher and commentator on many corporate IT issues and strategies. Robin is the founder of Bloor Research, an IT analyst company based in the UK and cofounder of the US analyst company, The Bloor Group.

He is the author of several books on a variety of topics, including e-commerce, service management and cloud computing. His most recent book is The Algebra of Data: A Foundation for the Data Economy (2015), which he co-authored with Gary J. Sherman, PhD, the mathematician who invented the algebra of data. As an analyst for The Bloor Group and Bloor Research, Robin has written scores of white papers, research reports and columns. In 2003, he was awarded an honorary PhD in computer science by the UK’s Wolverhampton University, in recognition of his “Services to the IT Industry.”

Steven Wilkinson, CISSP, CBP

CISO

Steven Wilkinson, CISSP, CBP

CISO

Steven Wilkinson is a certified cryptocurrency, blockchain and information security professional. He brings more than 10 years of experience in technology leadership, IT and security consulting to Permission.io.

While researching a solution for secure value transfer across the Internet, Steven discovered Bitcoin in early 2011 and began building multiple mining operations around it. Since then, he has been working and advising on a variety of blockchain projects and startups in this emerging ecosystem, including multiple token crowd sales. In 2013, Steven founded the Bitcoin consulting firm, Austin Bitcoin, which is one of the first BitPay merchant integration partners. He is also one of the co-founders and Vice President of the Texas Bitcoin Association which produces the Texas Bitcoin Conference.

Steven holds a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification from (ISC)² and a Certified Bitcoin Professional (CBP) certification from (C4).

Therese Fahy

HR & Controller

Therese Fahy

HR & Controller

Therese joined the Permission.io team in June 2014 as a jack of all trades. She currently runs the accounting, human resources and payroll divisions of our company. She moved to San Diego to attend San Diego State University, BS Business Administration, Accounting. She settled in Carlsbad with her husband and together they have four kids. She enjoys time with family running, hiking and camping and the beautiful California coast.

Michelle Ray

Director of Communications

Michelle Ray

Director of Communications

Michelle Ray brings more than a decade of networking, marketing, and social media wizardry and a love of the crypto economy with her to the role of Director of Communications for Permission.io.

In addition to being a mom to four children and owning her own marking and media company, she has worked on national grassroots advocacy marketing campaigns, co-founded a startup designed to improve upon existing grassroots communication tools and moving civic engagement beyond social media, and presented at conferences on effective social media use and introduction to cryptocurrencies.

Michelle spent 15 years in the tech industry and bills herself as a privacy advocate, crypto enthusiast, and tirelessly advocates for both.

Gary J. Sherman, PhD

Founding Mathematician

Gary J. Sherman, PhD

Founding Mathematician

Gary J. Sherman has more than 35 years of experience as a professional mathematician, working throughout as a researcher, reviewer, and college professor. His expertise in modern algebra, linear algebra, probability theory, topology, and functional analysis uniquely qualified him to develop the extended set algebra that is at the heart of Permission.io. Professor Sherman spent his entire teaching career at Indiana’s Rose‐Hulman Institute of Technology, rated as the best engineering college in America in each of the last 16 years by U.S. News & World Report. While at Rose‐Hulman, he published dozens of papers, received many awards and research grants, and was Chairman of the Department of Mathematics for six years. During this period, Gary also served for 11 years as a reviewer for the American Mathematical Society and for 12 years as a Visiting Lecturer for the Society of Industrial & Applied Mathematics. He received his BS and MA degrees in mathematics from Bowling Green University and his PhD in mathematics from Indiana University.

Shane McDougal

Agile Scrum Master

Shane McDougal

Agile Scrum Master

Shane comes to Permission.io with with significant start up experience, having been along for the IPO ride twice with VRIO and AWAY. After leading as an engineer and engineering manager, he has found his calling in Agile methodologies and LEAN operational thinking. His primary responsibility includes driving, managing and delivering of all our current and future technical projects using agile & scrum methodology “A truly Agile culture extends beyond the engineering team.”

Daniel Hiltbrand

Development Engineer

Daniel Hiltbrand

Development Engineer

Daniel brings nearly a decade of development and software engineering experience to Permission.io An experienced UI and UX engineer, he is committed to promoting the future of the web and forward-movement of society with ethical and useful software.

Rachel Pekar

Digital Marketing Coordinator

Rachel Pekar

Digital Marketing Coordinator

Rachel creatively communicates the voice, mission, and character of the Permission.io brand across all of our marketing channels. She is an advertising nerd and a strategic writer with a history in digital media and experiential marketing. She earned an Advertising degree with honors while working in market research, later becoming the marketing assistant at iHeartMedia. Her primary responsibilities atPermission.io are digital copywriting, social media management, and inbound marketing optimization.

Kris Lundberg

Art Director

Kris Lundberg

Art Director

A motion graphics art director with over 10 years of experience, Kris has worked on a breadth of projects spanning from non-profit to Fortune 500 campaigns. Whether he’s on set or at a desk, Kris brings a keen eye for detail and a creative spirit to every project. From pitch to final project, Kris constantly strives to bring something new to every job he works on.

Gary Strader

Senior Development Engineer

Gary Strader

Senior Development Engineer

Gary has been developing applications for nearly 20 years. He’s worked for large corporations, such as General Motors, as well as several startups, delivering value to millions of customers. He’s a natural leader, going back to his days in the Army where he was recognized for his leadership skills. Gary’s deep experience and dedication to the team differentiates him from the herd.

Matt Keeler

DevOps Engineer

Matt Keeler

DevOps Engineer

Matt is a recovering academic who geeks out on systems, networking, and architecture. He has a longstanding interest in the intersection of technology and privacy. At Permission.io he designs, implements, and maintains the Permission.io platform’s backend infrastructure, and automates all the things in between.

Jon Heller

Development Engineer

Jon Heller

Development Engineer

Equipped with a degree in Computer Science from Villanova University, Jon has extensive experience packaging and deploying projects for many clients on multiple platforms.

Sean McGary

Lead Developer

Sean McGary

Lead Developer

Sean brings 6 years of startup experience to Permission.io. Working with companies large and small has allowed him to build his skillset as a true full-stack Software Engineer, working in front-end development, API service design, infrastructure, and DevOps. His primary responsibility will be to lead the team in architecting and building performant back end APIs and supporting services.

News & Press

Permission.io Announces Appointment of VP of Finance & Compliance

algebraix.io

Oct 15, 2018

Austin, TX, October 15, 2018 - Permission.io today announced that it has appointed Matt Erhart as VP of Finance & Compliance.

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Algebraix Announces Rebrand to Permission.io

algebraix.io

Sep 12, 2018

The new brand affirms the company’s commitment to creating a new digital ad model based totally on permission.

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Algebraix Welcomes Esteemed Industry Leaders To Advisory Board

permission.wpengine.com

Apr 23, 2018

AUSTIN, Texas, April 23, 2018 - Algebraix has assembled an accomplished team of advisors with a wide range of industry experience. The Algebraix Advisory Board is made up of experts from finance, media, and blockchain technology.

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Algebraix plans to change the advertising industry and give power back to the user

cointime.com

Apr 19, 2018

It is no secret user data gets exploited by social media and search-engine websites. User data exploitation is a problem.

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Will Facebook’s Blunder Ignite a “Blockchain of Data Privacy” Movement?

blockchainmagazine.net

Apr 16, 2018

Facebook’s failure to prevent vast troves of consumer data from being siphoned off by third parties has received worldwide media attention. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether Facebook violated terms of a 2011 settlement when data of up to 50 million users were sent to Cambridge Analytics.

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Algebraix Permission based advertising ICO

crypto-freedom.com

Apr 6, 2018

I have to admit with recent revelations relating to Facebook and data as well as knowing how other large corporations in the same advertising sector operate.

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Algebraix Explains How ALX Gives You Control of Your Data and Is Changing Advertising

newsbtc.com

Apr 5, 2018

Algebraix is an Austin, Texas-based company that has developed a secure, permission-based ad platform called ALX.

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Algebraix.io Launches Public Token Sale

Algebraix

Mar 28, 2018

AUSTIN, Texas, March, 28 2018 – Algebraix.io, the developer of the permission-based ad platform that empowers individuals to monetize their personal data has launched its public sale of ALX tokens.

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Will Data Privacy Be The Death of Facebook?

medium.com

Mar 20, 2018

Facebook’s stock price is falling. It has fallen 15% from its high point at the end of January.

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Algebraix CEO Charles Silver To Deliver Keynote At SXSW

prnewswire.com

Mar 13, 2018

At this year's conference, Algebraix CEO Charles Silver will tell attendees how they can own and monetize their personal data and how entertainment will be the driving force that brings cryptocurrency into the mainstream.

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